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!ATA LIVES! NEW LEASE NAVIDAD

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In a time when it seems like all your favorite San Francisco cultural stomping grounds are closing or getting evicted, Artists’ Television Access (ATA) is here to stay! We’ve just signed the lease for another 5 years in the Mission. ATA has been host to some of the most influential and historic arts organizations in… Read more »

Intimate Strange 2.0

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Please join us for paula Levine’s digital video class finals. Works by: Michael Belmer Jason Beresini Christopher Danko Aditya Davar Audrianna Gonzales Jordan Griffin Austin Inman Matthew Macias Marilyn Roxie Scott Pagueros Arash Saffarian Oberon Strong Danica Uskert

CCSF Department of Cinema’s Motion Picture Directing class 2015 final film projects

Please Join Caroline Blair’s CCSF Department of Cinema’s Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of the 2015 final film projects. This showcase features a variety of narrative scenes starring Bay Area actors.  Directing Students: Dani Carias Bendana, Jose Cital, Thomas De La Rosa, Maddy Gibson, Kendra Gilpatrick, Elizabeth Hewlett, Wayman Irwin, Jessica Kenney, Tim… Read more »

Periwinkle Cinema: shorts by Lisa Ganser

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 Lisa Ganser has been part of the curatorial of Periwinkle Cinema, an established experimental monthly queer movie screening and collective since June 2013. Tonight’s monthly installment is Ganser’s public send off and a celebration of their short movie works as they and their partner Nomy Lamm are moving to Olympia, WA January 1, 2016. Please join us… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: DINNER TALKS

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DINNER TALKS: a conversation about race in the the experimental writing community guided by MG ROBERTS & WENDY TREVINO Since 1974 Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive… Read more »

University of San Francisco End-of-Semester Screening

Find out what’s on the minds of the students from The University of San Francisco. Tonight’s screening will feature a wild night of digital mini-masterpieces and showcases works from our Advanced Narrative and Motion Graphics courses. You’ll see genre-busting narratives and stylish graphic emissions. There will be snacks. Doors 7:00, Films 7:30

(14 Attempts) An evening of Tension and Release

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Performative works by students of guillermo galindo’s Primeval Intersection CCA course. works by: Rachel Acord,. Maio Alvear Olivia Basic Zachary Brozman, Zeynep Dilmen Patricia Duarte Leal Mary E. Hogan Alan Johnson, Stefan Kaiter-Snyder,. Dylan Loudon. Esther Sadeli, Hannah Volckmann Erik J.Walker, Haley Wood 

SFSU’s Experimental Documentary Workshop Finals

Please join us for Greta Snyder’s experimental Documentary Workshop Finals.

SFAI Radical Light Final Class Screening

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Immerse yourself in new iterations of moving image art by vibrant new practitoners in the medium. Student Works Include: Noah Brill Connor Erickson Joel Carter Grace Guo Raul Lira Will Raguro Desiree Rios Karlie Yegehiaian Door 8 pm, screening 8:30 pm

SFAI Intro to Film Final Class Screening

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Check out the latest works from Laitala’s Intro to Film class from The San Francisco Art Institute  works by: Anais De Los Santos Maya Herdigein Jehiel Gajer Junyi Fang Sophia Zlotnicki Ian Wong Paul Jung Jane Hsieh Kaiyang Yang Marco Castaneda Cholwreen Zhang Michael Hansen Christian Tan Mikala Alatorre Pikachu Huang Group Projects will be… Read more »

Linear Downfall: Sufferland

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Linear Downfall, an experimental band from Nashville, is known for seamlessly blending psychotic noise along with beautiful noise. Their music taps into the highs and lows of life and challenges one to look inward. Their captivating live shows caught the attention of Wayne Coyne, which lead to Linear Downfall’s role in the Flaming Lips side… Read more »

Kerry Laitala: Recent Works

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Kerry Laitala’s camera-less, electro-photographic images lie at the direct intersection between science and superstition, belief and manifestation. Using an electrical generator, she exposes light-sensitive 4×5” film with the build-up of ions that creates a corona discharge on the surface of conductive objects. The light generated comes directly from electricity; the corona discharge creates the photographic… Read more »

SOLO ORGAN Record Release show with SOLO ORGAN, BLACK SPIRITUALS, ETTRICK

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SOLO ORGAN Something along the lines of free gospel drone blues jazz n roll. Douglas Katelus playing alone on Hammond Organ is the final extension of ones obsession with the instrument. Pulling away everything from the extremity and keying in on the soul source… the organ/leslie speaker sound. Freeing oneself from the main structural being of what the Hammond sound is… Read more »

Almost Public/Semi-Exposed II

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ATA Window Gallery presents: Almost Public/Semi-Exposed II November 3 – December 3 ATA Window Gallery’s second annual month-long festival of installed performance art. From November 3rd to December 3rd we are hoping to host as many performers as possible to turn the ATA Window into an epicenter of constant live performance. Schedule: November 14 –… Read more »

OpenScreening

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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either… Read more »

ATA @ SFPL: The Fall of the I-Hotel (special location: Noe Valley Branch Library)

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Artists’ Television Access (ATA) teams up with SFPL to mine the treasures in the Library’s 16mm film archive. Join us for the 3rd installment of our quarterly screening series. That’s real film, not video! Tuesday, December 1st   6:30 pm Special Location: Noe Valley Branch Library 451 Jersey St (at Castro)   The Fall of the I-Hotel (Curtis Choy, 1983) 58 minutes… Read more »

DVAN and the International Southeast Asian Film Festival presents “Ways of Seeing: People and Places of Southeast Asia”

DVAN and the International Southeast Asian Film Festival presents “Ways of Seeing: People and Places of Southeast Asia” Multi-screen Projections Presentation & Opening Party. Discover little known histories and explore different notions of the Southeast Asian experience through moving and still images including family home movies, moving and still images from the French colonial era,… Read more »

FRENKEL DEFECTS III

Colorado-based nonprofit organization, Process Reversal, presents the third installment of its unique traveling film series — Frenkel Defects. This recurring series aims to explore what it means to work in — and exhibit on — photochemical film today by examining works from artists operating specifically in this practice. Often, this involves getting their hands dirty… Read more »

Periwinkle Cinema: TDOR

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 The annual Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) memorializes individuals who have died throughout the world in the previous year because of anti-transgender hatred. Each November, the worldwide transgender community turns its attention to family, friends and loved ones lost to violence and prejudice. A tradition inspired by the Allston, MA vigil for slain trans woman Rita Hester… Read more »

David Finkelstein and Dolissa Medina: New experimental shorts

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New York artist Finkelstein teams up with local artist Medina to present surreal narratives of landscapes, both external and internal. Privy (2014) A young woman is forced to live with an unsympathetic stepmother, and spends much of her time in an outhouse, escaping into books and her own vivid fantasy life. “Privy” uses oblique, poetic language,… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: a reading & conversation with MONICA MCCLURE & TRISHA LOW

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Since 1974 Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together readers, writers, and independent presses to engage, create, present, critique and archive their work.

Private Event

AMBIENT STATES

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An evening of sound & film performance with: Byron Westbrook / Paul Clipson Zachary James Watkins / Keith Evans Chris Duncan / John Davis Byron Westbrook is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn NY. He works with listening, space, perception and awareness, often pursuing routes with social engagement. His electronic sound interventions play with… Read more »

Kerry Laitala: Recent Works (opening reception)

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Kerry Laitala’s camera-less, electro-photographic images lie at the direct intersection between science and superstition, belief and manifestation. Using an electrical generator, she exposes light-sensitive 4×5” film with the build-up of ions that creates a corona discharge on the surface of conductive objects. The light generated comes directly from electricity; the corona discharge creates the photographic… Read more »

Right Window Gallery: Mary Elizabeth Yarbrough (opening reception)

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Thoughtographic Studies of an Extraordinary Mind: Rebecca Baron and Jim Haynes on the Psychic Photography of Ted Serios

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SF Cinematheque presents: Rebecca Baron and Jim Haynes In Person Presented in association with the Berkeley Film & Media Seminar, Department of Film & Media, UC Berkeley Ted Serios (1918–2006) was a true American original—a hard-drinking bellhop possessed of the uncanny ability to render photographic scenes onto film, purely through force of will! Long the… Read more »

OpenScreening

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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either… Read more »

City of the Dead: Art Hazelwood, Patrick Piazza, Veronica Solis

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ATA Window Gallery presents: City of the Dead by Art Hazelwood, Patrick Piazza and Veronica Solis. Oct 7 – Nov 3, 2015 This Dia de los Muertos themed installation features screen printed woodcuts of buildings and people and acts as a commentary on the current gentrification crisis in the Mission.

San Francisco LIVED IN

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  ” San Francisco LIVED IN” by Michael LaRocco Breaking the fourth wall is a concept in fiction in which a character can address the audience, via the author using his own awareness of an audience perceiving the art and “breaking” the silence between the two. For any contemporary metropolitan resident, this imperceptible fourth wall… Read more »

Gaze #10: animation showcase

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GAZE is excited to present our second annual animation showcase. Featuring 18 contemporary animated films that range from formalist to fantastic, psychedelic to sublime. Including Work by: Ali Aschman Nancy Jean Tucker Kelly Gallagher Nicole Antebi Marta Finkelstein Kate Ewald Elena Duque Gina Napolitan Mirka Morales Lori Damiano Qathi Hart Amanda Katz & Georg Anthony… Read more »

Periwinkle Cinema: spooky queer horror films!

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Periwinkle & Sanguis Sangria Horror Fest present spectacularly spooky queer horror films! In each, the characters battle their inner demons, their outer demons, and wrestle with the meaning of love. The characters struggle to survive not only bloodbaths but also economic disparity, rape culture, moving anxiety, and the realities of sex work.

Small Press Traffic: a reading & conversation with JANICE LEE & MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI

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Small Press Traffic presents a reading & conversation with JANICE LEE & MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI Since 1974 Small Press Traffic (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together independent readers, writers, and presses through publications, conferences, talks, and our influential reading series. Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center promotes… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: OBSESSIONS; a talk by Eileen Myles

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small press traffic presents: OBSESSIONS: a talk by Eileen Myles Since 1974 Small Press Traffic (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together independent readers, writers, and presses through publications, conferences, talks, and our influential reading series. Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center promotes and supports… Read more »

San Francisco LIVED IN (opening reception)

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” San Francisco LIVED IN” by Michael LaRocco Breaking the fourth wall is a concept in fiction in which a character can address the audience, via the author using his own awareness of an audience perceiving the art and “breaking” the silence between the two. For any contemporary metropolitan resident, this imperceptible fourth wall exists… Read more »

OpenScreening

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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either… Read more »

Where We Leave Off – Claire Bain

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The September window installation is a changing set of light/shadow/time/kinetic sculptural systems by Claire Bain. Derived from sensory experiences in natural light and mechanical systems, this work aims to foster connection and enjoyment in the viewer’s brain. Click here for times that the artist will be working/performing in the window, come on by all month!… Read more »

Elliott C Nathan: Recent Works

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Elliott C Nathan is a bay area artists who has resided in San Francisco for the past 5 years. His works are often eclectic and comprised of whimsical colors, bold black lines, found objects, and repurposed scrap wood. Many of his works react to color changing lights, bringing a lively fun energy into the gallery… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: OBSESSIONS, a talk by CA CONRAD

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Since 1974 Small Press Traffic (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together independent readers, writers, and presses through publications, conferences, talks, and our influential reading series. Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center promotes and supports writers from all over the globe—particularly those who push the… Read more »

4U Film Fest

 4U Magazine is San Francisco Bay/Mexico City culture magazine was founded by Kelly Lovemonster (of San Francisco’s Swagger Like Us queer hip-hop franchise) and Caitlin Donohue (freelance writer and former culture editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian) in the Bay Area in 2013. Since then it has published 12 web issues and numerous live events… Read more »

Elliott C Nathan: Recent Works (reception)

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Elliott C Nathan is a bay area artists who has resided in San Francisco for the past 5 years. His works are often eclectic and comprised of whimsical colors, bold black lines, found objects, and repurposed scrap wood. Many of his works react to color changing lights, bringing a lively fun energy into the gallery… Read more »

Cine+Mas: She – Ella

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She – Ella Director/Writer- Libia Stella Gomez Colombia/ 2015/ 104 min/ Drama, Women in Film Ticket: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2227138 When Georgina dies, her husband Alcides tries to give her a dignified funeral, which is quite difficult, because they have no money and are living in the poorest district of Bogotá. ++++++++++++++++++++ Cuando Georgina muere, su esposo Alcides intenta darle… Read more »

Cine+Mas: A Separate Wind – Viento Aparte

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A Separate Wind Viento Aparte Director –  Alejandro Gerber Bicecci, Invited to attend. Mexico/2014 / 99 min/ Spanish/ Coming of Age/Drama/ Road Trip/ Youth Ticket: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2220738 A mother suffers a stroke during the family’s vacation. A teenage boy and his younger sister will start a long journey through Mexico to their grandmother’s house. On the way they… Read more »

Small Press Traffic: A reading & conversation with HUGO GARCIA-MANRIQUEZ & DOLORES DORANTES

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Since 1974 Small Press Traffic (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene, bringing together independent readers, writers, and presses through publications, conferences, talks, and our influential reading series. Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center promotes and supports writers from all over the globe—particularly those who push the… Read more »

The City Luminous: Electric Salome and other works By Kerry Laitala Including 2 works with Live sound by Voicehandler

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ATA & Gaze present and evening with Kerry Laitala and Voicehandler. Kerry Laitala will present two works from her Princess Grace Foundation funded City Luminous Series celebrating the lighting pioneers that gathered a century ago at the fabulous Jewel City, a 635-acre monument to impermanence constructed, and soon after, demolished in San Francisco’s Marina district…. Read more »

I WILL BE CALLED LUCIFER

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Through an off-beat mixture of myth, biography, docu-fable, collage and fantasy, I WILL BE CALLED LUCIFER is an exploded narrative which converges the many lives of Lucifer with the now-mythic story of filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s troubled production LUCIFER RISING. Featuring a cast of characters portrayed by their personal fantasies, (including Faust as Jimmy Page and… Read more »

Periwinkle Cinema: San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Fest

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This month Periwinkle Cinema is presenting programming from the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Fest(www.sexworkerfest.com) a biennial 10 day long festival has provided a forum for sex worker film and video makers since 1999. The Festival has since expanded to become a vibrant venue for performances, workshops, visual arts, political organizing,… Read more »

ATA @ SFPL: Rufino Tamayo & James Baldwin (Screening @ Noe Valley Public Library)

Artists’ Television Access (ATA) teams up with SFPL to mine the treasures in the Library’s 16mm film archive. Join us for our quarterly screening series of fantastic movies.That’s real film, not video! Rufino Tamayo & James Baldwin This program presents artist portraits (one of a visual artist, and one of a writer) that are not… Read more »

ATA Window Gallery Opening Reception: Where We Leave Off

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ATA Window Gallery presents Where We Leave Off Opening Reception: September 11, 2015, 6:00 PMThe September window installation is a changing set of light/shadow/time/kinetic sculptural systems by Claire Bain. Derived from sensory experiences in natural light and mechanical systems, this work aims to foster connection and enjoyment in the viewer’s brain. Tonight’s event will have refreshments,… Read more »

Kelly Sears: “Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise” (2011)

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Presented by SF Cinematheque Witty, savvy, ironic, poetic, exhilarating, even cosmic…Sears’ works afford the viewer a sort of wormhole into a parallel universe… made entirely of things we nonetheless recognize. This is the uncanny principle that Ms. Sears so unerringly parlays, rendering collage-animation singularities out of institutional media. Something is wrong with these pictures, things… Read more »

OpenScreening

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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! The first Thursday of every month we have an Open Screening. An Open Screening is where we invite local filmmakers to show their short subject films (under 15 mins.). It is a free event and you can either… Read more »

Michelle Brandemuehl: Nothing Left to Break

My work is less about recording what I see around me and more about exploring what I cannot see. I make art to articulate through the visual what we struggle to articulate through language; to reflect what lies beneath the rational mind. The series I created titled Nothing Left to Break, is based on the… Read more »

ATA Window Gallery: Sehnsucht by China Langford

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ATA Window Gallery: Sehnsucht: Slide Projections by China Langford Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015, 7-9pm Sehnsucht: Slide Projections by China Langford Sehnsucht is a German word with no equivalent English translation. It is roughly akin to nostalgia or longing, but in English these terms are related to the memory of something one has known,… Read more »

Films by Zach Iannazzi and Margaret Rorison

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SF Cinematheque presents: Zach Iannazzi and Margaret Rorison In Person The film/video work of Margaret Rorison—co-founder and curator of Baltimore’s Sight Unseen screening series—is described as “an impressionistic exploration into the visceral nature of memory and experience.” A featured artist in CROSSROADS 2014 and ’15, Rorison appears in person for the first time visits San… Read more »

Mike Kuchar: Soul Searching Series & more

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ATA is proud to present an evening with avant-garde underground filmmaker Mike Kuchar (in person), exploring through the Soul Searching Series and other works. The vibrant, poetic and wild works of Mike Kuchar have inspired generations of filmmakers and artists with their wickedly perverse parodies of pop-culture and abundant creativity. From early 8 mm films… Read more »

Periwinkle Cinema: ZOETIC

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A showcase of animation, reanimation, puppets and more! Featuring works by: McCrimmon Alexis Clement Hil Goldberg Lorin Murphy Wren Warner Ewan Duarte Lisa Ganser plus more!  

La Imagen en Llamas/Images in Flames: A Survey of Uruguayan Cinema

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SF cinematheque presents: Curator/Historian Ángela López Ruiz In Person With cinematic traditions almost as old as the film medium itself, Montevideo, Uruguay, was, for much of the 20th Century a vibrant hub in the international filmmaking community. Inspired by an adventurous annual film festival—Festival de Cine Experimental y Documental—which exposed local artists to works by… Read more »

Bay Area Poetry Marathon

For a dozen summers, poets from California and across the U.S. have come to San Francisco to read in the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading series.  This August we’ll host a special event guest curated by poet Zoe Tuck.  Readers will include  Elana Chavez  *  Madison Davis  *  Rob Halpern  *  Geraldine Kim  *  Tessa… Read more »

3 Short Movies by Joseph Dwyer +…..

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3 Short Movies by Joseph Dwyer. Accompanied by a curated hour-long program of dark, odd, confusing motion pictures. Joseph Dwyer makes movies that simultaneously critique and pay homage to past genres in cinematic history. Wisdom Teeth is a 16mm experimental nod to German Expressionist film of the 1920’s. Dwyer reached a 1950’s mood by 2012… Read more »

OpenScreening

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ATA’s Open Screening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there!                                                                            … Read more »

Sehnsucht: Slide Projections by China Langford & Michelle Brandemuehl: Nothing Left to Break (opening reception)

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ATA Window Gallery: Sehnsucht: Slide Projections by China Langford Sehnsucht: Slide Projections by China Langford Sehnsucht is a German word with no equivalent English translation. It is roughly akin to nostalgia or longing, but in English these terms are related to the memory of something one has known, while sehnsucht has no such reference. Instead… Read more »

MAPP Mission Arts Performance Project: Homeboy

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On Saturday August 1st, MAPP Mission Arts Performance Project s theme is “Celebrating Queer Culture en El Barrio”. We’ll screen HOMEBOY (CMSF LFF5 selection and part of The Q-Sides exhibition at Galeria de la Raza ). Dino Dinco, filmmaker, will be on hand as well.  Presented by Cine+Mas SF / San Francisco Latino Film Festival… Read more »

Recent works by Tslil Tsemet

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Through Art I examine the human species based upon the social and cultural values to which it is bond, and to those ideals we grasp in order to maintain our sanity. Therefore, I paint and sculpt with the use of symmetrical composition, and blur the line between Kitsch and Sacrament, and thus I sanctify so… Read more »

ATA Window Gallery presents: Marcelle Marais, The Sixth Epoch

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ATA Window Gallery presents: Princess VuVu/Marcelle Marais, The Sixth Epoch, July 6-31st. Opening Reception will take place July 6 from 7:30-10pm. Princess VuVu presents “The Sixth Epoch”, an exorcism of past conditions. The installation is in conjunction with the release of the artists Debut Virtual Album which will be screened at ATA on the eve of July… Read more »

The 8th Annual Druid Underground Film Festival

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See aliens rip their own faces off, learn how to detect if your child worships Satan, perform a home exorcism and much much more! A high-powered two-part blast of subversive cinema, the Druid Underground Film Festival’s 8th edition kicks off with a hilarious FOUND FOOTAGE ASSAULT dynamically mixing the trashiest cuts from  amateur monster movies,… Read more »

Recent works by Tslil Tsemet (closing reception)

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Through Art I examine the human species based upon the social and cultural values to which it is bond, and to those ideals we grasp in order to maintain our sanity. Therefore, I paint and sculpt with the use of symmetrical composition, and blur the line between Kitsch and Sacrament, and thus I sanctify so… Read more »

Short Circuit: A New Short Film Program from France

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“Short Circuit” introduces a selection of French Short films from a new filmmakers’ generation intersecting brilliant comedies, fiction genre short works that will take you on a unique journey into young film creation from France. Curated by Laurence Mazouni The program includes Florine Clap’s “La Première”, a dancer warming up before a first performance. Rocco… Read more »

Kveto Hecko – Films on Art

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Kveto Hecko is a writer, director, producer and editor of films that deal with the various art forms: visual art, performance, theatre, photography, set design, architecture, music and even film itself. He offers a filmmaker’s point of view that goes far beyond the objective depiction of art, steps into the process of creation to enhance… Read more »

ANALOGICA SELECTION

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ANALOGICA is a yearly international festival for disseminating and learning about analog technologies (film, music, photography). It takes place during the first weekend of October in northern Italy, in Ora (BZ) a small town in the Alps. ANALOGICA FILM SELECTION is the annual short film program. PROGRAM Flabzilla by Kayleigh O’Keefe / Bill Rodgers /… Read more »

In Hanky Code: The Movie (Periwinkle Cinema)

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Before Internet dating and hookup apps, The Handkerchief code was largely used by gay men in the 1970’s to distinguish sexual preferences and fetishes in gay clubs and on the streets of places like San Francisco and New York. In Hanky Code: The Movie, Periwinkle Cinema, San Francisco’s queer experimental film collective brings Queer and… Read more »

Queer Mythologies: Non-Human Voices in Indian Art/Cinema

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3rd i Films invites you to take a journey through the contemporary landscape of experimental film/video/art in India. Presented by Anuj Vaidya (co-director of 3rd i’s annual film festival, and professor of queer studies at Montclair State University, NJ), this multi-media presentation will explore the intersections of human and non-human in contemporary queer artistic production in India…. Read more »

Princess VuVu/Marcelle Marais, The Sixth Epoch (opening reception)

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ATA Window Gallery presents: Princess VuVu/Marcelle Marais, The Sixth Epoch, July 6-31st.   Princess VuVu presents “The Sixth Epoch”, an exorcism of past conditions. The installation is in conjunction with the release of the artists Debut Virtual Album which will be screened at ATA on the eve of July 6th. Princess takes us on a journey through… Read more »

NEARFIELDS

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An evening of moving image and music performances by: John Davis / Paul Clipson Keith Evans Jim Haynes Collin McKelvey Friday, July 3, 2015 8pm $10 Collin McKelvey is a San Francisco based multimedia artist working primarily in time based media. McKelvey has shown work at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Southern Exposure, Kala,… Read more »

OpenScreening

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ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area. Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. Door:7:30pm Projector: 8pm Not a… Read more »

Ryan Schrinel, 1974

My heart aligns and I am mindfully making art. 7x7x7 in a 49 square grid. The sculptural color-field records a durational and creative meditation. I sit above a bustling Mission Street, my spirit sourcing a space of boundless energy, as I witness one form pouring into the next. I am grateful, so, I create these offerings… Read more »

Ryan Schrinel, 1974

My heart aligns and I am mindfully making art. 7x7x7 in a 49 square grid. The sculptural color-field records a durational and creative meditation. I sit above a bustling Mission Street, my spirit sourcing a space of boundless energy, as I witness one form pouring into the next. I am grateful, so, I create these offerings… Read more »

Gaze #9: Past Perfect • Future Tense

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A show dedicated to our relationship with time—looking into the past, the present, and the future—contemplating our connection to the clock and calendar. Seasons, cycles, phases, orbits and generations. How do we understand the longing for things that are gone or­ our desire to rewrite the past? What can we make of our anxiety of the unknown or the… Read more »

MULTIPLE PERSUASIONS: films and performances by Lyra Hill

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An evening of short celluloid films and sonic performances by Chicago-based artist Lyra Hill. These works indulge a sensual relationship to environment and rigorous attention to the alchemical capabilities of celluloid. Lyra’s 16mm films employ in-camera special effects techniques to complement their magical subject matter: divination, hallucination, death, fluid identity, female sexuality, and dumb jokes…. Read more »

Bay Area Poetry Marathon

For a dozen summers poets from California and across the U.S. have come to San Francisco to read in the Bay Area Poetry Marathon summer reading series.  This summer’s series will open with a special event guest curated by poet Colin Partch.  Come listen to ten great writers — everyone from well-known poetic elders to… Read more »

COLLECTIVE GAZE || MULTIPLE WORKS BY LOCAL ARTISTS

Join us at ATA for a night of short films produced by artists who at one point in time called San Francisco home.  Many still live in San Francisco, some have ventured elsewhere…​and on June 18th  we’ll bring our work together for one special night to weave multiple stories, genres, visions and experiences into one hybrid… Read more »

ATA @ SFPL (Screening @ Noe Valley Public Library)

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ATA @ SFPL is a 16mm film series that begins June 13 with our first program screening at the San Francisco Public Library’s Noe Valley Branch. ATA @ SFPL is a collaboration between Artists’ Television Access and the San Francisco Public Library… Claire Bain,  Brian Darr, Mark Wilson, Dayv Jones, and ATA programming have spent wonderful… Read more »